{"id":1657,"date":"2010-11-05T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","slug":"overheated-oven-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Overheated Oven Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse today from Hosea 7:1-4 and<strong><em> the metaphor of an over heated oven<\/em><\/strong>. The Lord\u00a0tells Israel\u00a0in verse two that all<strong><em> their\u00a0sins\u00a0\u00a0are ever\u00a0before Him<\/em><\/strong>. The Lord says that they are<strong><em> adulterers<\/em><\/strong>. Oh how adultery is rampant in our nation today. It used to be we found it much in the world, but not anymore. We find it is in a great amount in the church, committed by those behind\u00a0the pulpit\u00a0and\u00a0those sitting in the pew. The Lord says there adultery reminds him of an\u00a0 over heated oven. When you open the door of the oven it burst into a full-blown fire. It seems God&#8217;s so-called people have no control over their passions and appetites and they quickly\u00a0burn with sexual passions. Solomon said in Proverbs 25:28 he that hath no ruled over his own spirit is like a\u00a0city that is broken down, and without walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse today from Hosea 7:1-4 and the metaphor of an over heated oven. The Lord\u00a0tells Israel\u00a0in verse two that all their\u00a0sins\u00a0\u00a0are ever\u00a0before Him. The Lord says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}